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Who Believes These?

Robin Hanson
Jun 13, 2012
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“Fifty Shades” … tells the story of Anastasia Steele, an inexplicably virginal recent college graduate, and Christian Grey, the impossibly handsome and twisted 27-year-old billionaire who falls for her. Boy meets girl, boy whips girl, boy loses girl. In the end, … Ana has it her way: She declines to sign Grey’s “submissive” contract; they keep on having kinky sex, but not too much; and Steele helps Grey recover from his wounded childhood. …

It has ushered in a moment of frank talk about women’s sexual needs and desires. … Leonard, the author, makes the key distinction: between women’s fantasies and their realities. “In real life, I think it’s something very, very different,” she told NBC. “You want someone who does the dishes.” (more)

A symbiotic relationship [is] developing between the Obama campaign, with its style-conscious first lady who dons a wide variety of American designers, and a deep-pocketed, largely Democratic fashion industry, which has been increasingly coordinating its support of Obama. … Name an American designer. Vera Wang. Michael Kors. Diane von Furstenberg. Michelle Obama wears these American luxury labels and a host of others, earning her consistent praise from a fickle industry. …

The first lady’s campaign spokeswoman Olivia Alair said: “The first lady thinks that women should wear whatever makes them feel good and be comfortable. That’s how the first lady chooses her own clothes and based on no other considerations.” (more)

Right. Most women have no interest in impossibly handsome 27 year old billionaires who don’t do the dishes. And Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available.

These people didn’t believe these things when they said them, and 95% of people who hear them don’t believe them either. Yet we all know they are the things these people are supposed to say to avoid seeming unacceptably cynical.

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May 15

>Most women have no interest in impossibly handsome 27 year old billionaires who don’t do the dishes.

How to distinguish between the impossibly handsome 27-year-old billionaire who really is interested in you, and the one who is seeing 5 other girls at the same time..?

http://www.theatlanticwire....

>And Michelle Obama only wears Democrat donor fashion items because they just happen to be the most comfortable clothes available.

Maybe she doesn't "feel good" about wearing the same clothes in public twice (something British royalty are supposed to avoid doing apparently) and Republican fashion designers simply have not been making any clothing donations.

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Firepower
May 15

 Yes. Obama was clearly the rational choice.btw are you related?

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